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Vol. 23. Issue S1.
Pages S46-S54 (August 2022)
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Vol. 23. Issue S1.
Pages S46-S54 (August 2022)
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Awareness, knowledge and acceptance of COVID-19 vaccine among the people of West Bengal, India: A web-based survey
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Sovan Samantaa, Jhimli Banerjeea, Suvrendu Sankar Karb, Kazi Monjur Alic, Biplab Giria, Amitava Pald,
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, Sandeep Kumar Dasha,
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a Department of Physiology, University of Gour Banga, Malda 732103, West Bengal, India
b Department of Medicine, R.G.Kar Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata 700004, West Bengal, India
c Department of Nutrition, M.U.C Women's College, Purba Bardhaman 713104, West Bengal, India
d Department of Physiology, City College, 102/1, Raja Rammohan Sarani, Kolkata 70000, West Bengal, India
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Table 1. Descriptive characteristics of the study participants.
Table 2. Associations between sex and COVID-19 vaccine awareness.
Table 3. Associations between age and COVID-19 vaccine awareness.
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Objectives

Rapid vaccination is the only way to fight against COVID-19.Vaccine hesitancy is the major barrier against this strategy. The main objective of this cross-sectional study was to analyze COVID-19 vaccine acceptance in the general population of West Bengal (India), as well as to investigate the factors that were independently associated with people's desire to receive the vaccine.

Methods

An online questionnaire was distributed by email, Whatsapp, and other social media platforms, and the responses were analyzed using the SPSS (Version 20) software.

Results

We conducted a web-based survey in West Bengal, India (N = 803), and accumulated information on individuals' desire to adopt vaccine against COVID-19, views about the virus's effectiveness, and many knowledge-based socio-demographic factors that potentially impact the overall vaccination efforts. We found that, 12.08% of participants do not believe that vaccination against COVID-19 is necessary, but among the rest of the population, 44.33% of individuals are willing to be vaccinated once the vaccine is available, whereas 39.60% of the population responded that they will not be vaccinated immediately but will do so later.

Conclusions

Despite the participants' strong vaccine willingness, our findings revealed a troubling degree of lake of awareness and insignificant scientific knowledge about the COVID-19 pandemic and its associated vaccination programme. Vaccination hesitancy is not a barrier in this survey region, but poor vaccine availability and a lack of awareness campaigns may instill unfavorable beliefs in those who refuse to be vaccinated.

Keywords:
COVID-19
Vaccine
Awareness
Acceptance
West Bengal
India
Abbreviations:
AOR
CI
COR
COVID-19
SARS-CoV-2

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